Pharmaceutical Care Services: Indian Scenario

The qualified pharmacist in coordination with other health care team works to prevent disease and to assess, monitor, initiate and modify use of medication in order to ensure safe and effective drug therapy regimens. This system is recognized as a patient focused, outcome based pharmaceutical care or pharmacy practice. This system is mainly aimed to optimize the patient health and to achieve positive clinical outcomes through the active involvement of clinical pharmacists in health care organizations. The active involvement of clinical pharmacists in India in this regard is not up to the expected mark in contrary to trends in developed countries. In present day health care trend usage of multiple drugs in drug therapy is common practice and raised the complexity of drug interactions and similar problems. To address such situations and solve the probable problems, existence of pharmaceutical care system in Indian health care organizations is of urgent need.